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Lamp

Date

2nd century A.D.

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Roman

Department

Implements

Institution

Getty Museum

Discus Iconography: Three identical worn theater masks evenly spaced in upper half of concave discus, the heads overlapping the ridges. Description: Moldmade, from plaster mold. Ring handle with three grooves on upper part. Flat shoulder, separated from discus by a flat raised band marked off by two grooves and interrupted by a short wide channel between discus and nozzle; rectangular panel on each side of shoulder; crude vine and bunch of grapes on upper shoulder between panels and handle; the two extremities of the ridge curl outward at the channel; incised circle on each side of handle and on each side of nozzle channel; another on the left shoulder close to nozzle. Two concentric ridges descending toward the central filling-hole. Small air hole in lower field. Heart-shaped nozzle encroaching upon shoulder. Base-ring marked off by two deep circular grooves; incuse plain planta pedis in center.

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